Nicholas jenkins



UNITED STATES NICHOLAS JENKINS, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HOLMES,

PATENT OFFICE.

BOOTH & HAYDENS, O F SAME PLACE.

LAMP-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,183, dated July 14-, 188 5.

Application filed March 7, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NIcHoLAs JENKINS, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Lamp-Burners, of which the following is a specification.

I will describe in detail a lamp-burner embodying my improvement, and thenpoint out the novel features in a claim. 7

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side View of a burner embodying my improvement, with the chimney-gallery, deflector, and air-distributer elevated. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same, taken in a plane at right angles to Fig. 1, and showing all the parts in their normal position; and Fig. 3 is a top view of the lower parts of the burner, including the wick-tube and a slide fitting thereon.

Similar letters of reference designate corre sponding parts in all the figures.

A designates the body of the burner. It may be made of any suitable size, shape, and material. At thebottom it is provided with an externally-screw-threaded boss-or hub, a,whereby the burner may be secured to a reservoir.

B designates a wick-tube, fitted in the body A of the burner and extending abovethe same. As shown, the wick-tube is an ordinary flat wick-tube adapted for a flat wick. The body of the burner and wick-tube have combined with them mechanism for adjusting the wick. This mechanism is shown as consisting of a shaft, s, and ratchets or toothed wheels thereon. From the body of the burner, arms 12 extend upwardly and support a ring, 0. The exterior shell of the body of the burner, the arms I), and the ring 0 may advantageously be formed integral, as shown.

C designates an air-distributer, consisting, as here shown, of a concavo-convex plate fitted in the ring a.

D designates a chimney-gallery. It is provided or made with a perforated air-distributer, E, which extends into close proximity with the plane of the wall of the wick-tube, and has affixed to it a deflector, F. The deflector F is shown as made of conicalor conoidal form. hinged at one point to the chimney-gallery and secured by a catch at an opposite point. The chimney-gallery is supported by arms G, which at the lower end embrace the wick-tube,

and are adapted to slide vertically thereon. As shown, the two arms are'united by straps f, extending between them and fitting close to the wick-tube. The arms and straps are shown 5 5 as made integral. The upper part of the wicktube is provided with protuberances, which may be struck up or otherwise formed. They form stops whereby the upward movement of A the slide is limited. A gas-tube, I, is arranged adjacent to the wick-tube.

I am aware that it is not new-to use a deflector separate from the air-distributer and supported upon rods secured to the inner side of the deflector, which said rods are adapted to be slid up and down within tubes unconnected with the wick-tube. I am also aware that it is not new to attach anair-dist-ributer directly to a slide without the intervention of arms, the slide being adapted to be moved up and down on a wick-tube, the air-distributer supporting a chimney-gallery and a deflector, and there being no stops on the wick-tube to limit the upward movement of the slide. it

is also old to construct a lamp-burner with a 7 5 large hollow cylinder surrounding the wicktube and extending upwardly to a point nearly as high as the top of said wick-tube, but wholly unconnected with the wick-tube, aslide arranged in such manner that it may be moved up and down about said cylinder, and arms extending from said slide to a chimney-gallery,

cylinder, and a deflector, said chimney-gallery, air-distributer, and deflector being to- 3 gether supported upon the before-mentioned arms. Burners have also been made in which the deflector was provided with inwardly-extending ears, bent around the wick-tube in such manner as to form a slide whereby the deflector might be moved up and down on the wick-tube. My improvement possesses the ad- I vantage over each of these that by my form of construction I can use a full-sized air-distributer closely surrounding the wick-tube and secure a full-sized air-space in the deflector, thereby obtaining the ordinary circulation of air, and yetprovide a space through which, when the chimney-gallery, the deflector, and

the air-distributer are raised to the point where :00

their upward movement is stopped by the stop on the wick-tube, a match may be inserted for an air-distributer arranged about said slide, and a chimney-gallery, air-distributer, and deflector connected together and supported on the said arms so far above the slide that a space will be left between the same and the slide, said air-distributer extending into close proximity with the plane of the Wall of the wick-tube, substantially as specified.

' N IOHOLAS JENKINS.

Witnesses:

H. H. WALKER, G. O. THOMAS. 

